Kathleen Byron in Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus (1947).
A time-lapse peony from a 1950s promotional short, "Garden Wise." I just started another blog for GIFs made from vintage ephemeral films like this.
Alice tries to catch the attention of a very grumpy Cheshire Cat in Percy Stow and Cecil Hepworth's Alice in Wonderland (1903), the first filmed adaptation of the story. Footage posted online by the British Film Institute.
The last shot of Nino Oxilia's Rapsodia Satanica (1917).
The Blue Bird (1918), directed by Maurice Tourneur. I just published a blog post about this gorgeous, little-known fantasy film.